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Socotra Pomegranate Tree (Punica protopunica): The Vulnerable Predicament of the "Other Pomegranate"
Province- or state-, national-, international-modeled gardens for public appreciation appeal to me.
The island Socotra causes me to consider it up high on any country-modeled gardens.
All woody plants there deserve public delight in their ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2025
Wisconsin's Natural Bridge State Park: Arch, Rockshelter, Shade-Tolerant Flora of Medicinal Interest
State-, national-, international-modeled gardens interest me.
Natural Bridge State Park epitomizes a natural-bridge entry in a Unitedstatesian-national or a world-international garden.
Isn't it incomparably educationally entertaining, ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2025
Mitsubishi i-MiEV: An Electric Car for Environmental and Public Health
The shades that colored Mitsubishi i-Miev (bodies, rims, other elements) totaled 20, according to "Mitsubishi i-Miev Paint Codes" page on PaintColourChart.com website
(URL: https://www.paintcolourchart.com/cars/048/itraitdunionmiev.html)
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2025
Music Book Review: Handel's Bestiary by Donna Leon, With CD of 12 Arias, as Baroque Era Title #1
Considering the first in-text image of the Da Vinci equestrian statue concerns me with animal sentients contained and not contained within the Handel bestiary.
Why does Donna Leon designate no Handel music-derived horse sentient?
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2025
The Gardens of Venice and the Veneto by Jenny Condie and Alex Ramsay
Donna Leon acquaints us with the Venetian microcosm within the Veneto macrocosm.
The afore-acknowledged author also addresses the US-Army microcosm within the Veneto macrocosm.
Mightn't it be interesting to match Veneto and Venice gardens with ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/03/2025
Music Book Review: Handel's Bestiary by Donna Leon, With CD of 12 Arias, as Baroque Era Title #1
The computer crashed before I continued my cherishing animal-sentient correlations with certain characteristics.
Lions as brave, stags as noble and tigers as altruistic draw me.
Moths as tempting and silver turtledoves as elusive intrigue ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/01/2025
Hope: a review
No. The Eucharist, wafer and wine, is a sacrament, one of the seven most important channels of God's grace, whereas the touching the holy water is a sacramental, a religious act less significant than a sacrament. It is a reminder of baptism, ...
frankbeswick, on 02/01/2025
Hope: a review
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Mass behavior intrigues me in two instances, one fictional, the other real-life.
The movie The drop makes Tom Hardy's one-time-murderer character mention his ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/01/2025
Getting Through a Power Outage
Your comment Jul 19, 2015, that "We usually have no winter problems here, some years we do not ever get past thirty degrees, but summers are a problem when the A/C goes out" intrigues me.
Your text mentions battery-operated fans and battery- ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/01/2025
Valentine's Symbols
Thank you for your comments below, in answer to my previous question.
It's so interesting what the different colors of Valentine roses invoke.
For example, blue and green flowers in general intrigue me even as your Valentine countdown from Feb. ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 02/01/2025
Valentine's Symbols
I can't say about the colors of knots. They are very likely used in similar way as colors ofor ribbons. Gold, in my opinion was used for different reasons. One important was an improvement of printing technique. Postcards used gold (and some ...
Tolovaj, on 01/31/2025
Valentine's Symbols
Brown is not recognized as a Valentine's symbol at the moment. Teddy bears come in different color, so they are not defining brown at the moment, but who knows what future brings?
Tolovaj, on 01/31/2025
Valentine's Symbols
No, 14 flowers represent 14 days of February. It's a coundown calendar, similar to Advent calendars popular in December. The fourteenth rose is for St. Valentine's Day, but the order is not important. Colors are irrelevant, the color symbolism ...
Tolovaj, on 01/31/2025
Hope: a review
No records are made or kept, so there is no list of any kind. The bishops keep records of who is allow3d to absolve, but what the penitent says is unrecorded.
frankbeswick, on 01/31/2025
Hope: a review
Thank you for your comment below, in answer to my previous observation and question.
Absolution and dispensation appear to me as such impactful, powerful actions.
Does the absolver have to designate somewhere officially or with someone ...
DerdriuMarriner, on 01/31/2025